News

• More major public M&A deals in FY16 – study

  A number of factors may boost the number of large M&A deals until next fiscal year, the study suggests. read more

• Ashurst advises Nippon Life in closing $2.4b acquisition of MLC

  NAB’s sale of MLC completes the bank’s major divestments as it realigns and focuses on core businesses in Australia and New Zealand. read more

• Clifford Chance supplants Linklaters in Murdoch phone-hacking litigation work

  This is the fourth time News Group Newspapers has replaced law firms. read more

• Dentons appoints former CommBank exec as Global CFO

  He served as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s managing director and general manager of global trade and transaction services. read more

• Cadwalader exits Asia

  The white shoe firm will shutter its Beijing and Hong Kong offices, its only offices in Asia, by year’s end. read more

• Dentons launches global referral network

  Slater & Gordon cuts 640 jobs… Most feared law firms named… read more

• Firm partners with mum network to break new ground

  One online legal marketplace has partnered with the ProfessionalMums network. read more

• Commercial firm appoints technology expert as partner

  Managing partner highlights his firm’s partnership path and a string of appointments of lawyers who have been hired from other firms. read more

• Wanted: Australia’s most innovative firms

  Australasian Lawyer is on the hunt for the most innovative firms across Australia read more

• More waiting for pending CMS-Nabarro-Olswang megamerger

  After reports of partnerships voting last week regarding the merger, one of the firms has delayed voting pending a review of numbers. read more